Rago Arts and Auctions: Toomey and Co.: Prints and Multiples, 110824, Chicago

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 08, 2024 - November 08, 2024
Page Size: 165 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
100 Grant Wood 1891--1942

Tree Planting Group

New York 1937 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,450.00
101 Thomas Hart Benton 1889--1975

Arkansas Evening (or Nebraska Evening)

New York 1941 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,032.00
102 Grant Wood 1891--1942

December Afternoon

New York 1941 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
103 Clare Leighton 1898--1989

Loading (from The Lumber Camp series)

1931 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,016.00
104 Louis Lozowick 1892--1973

Williamsburg Bridge

New York 1930 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,358.00
105 John Marin 1870--1953

Downtown, the El (from the Six American Etchings series)

New York 1921 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,142.00
106 James Allen 1894--1964

The Connectors

1934 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,806.00
107 Benton Spruance 1904--1967

The People Work - Night (from The People Work series)

1937 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 3,096.00
108 Martin Lewis 1881--1962

Rainy Day, Queens

1931 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
109 Martin Lewis 1881--1962

Rain on Murray Hill

1928 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
110 John Marin 1870--1953

The Lobster Fisherman (from the John Marin: Drawings and Watercolors portfolio)

New York 1948 / 1950 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 258.00
111 Martin Lewis 1881--1962

Boss of the Block

c.1939 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 819.00
112 Marsden Hartley 1877--1943

Apples on a Table

1923 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 441.00
113 John Henry Twachtman 1853--1902

Dock at Newport

1893 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 258.00
114 Childe Hassam 1859--1935

Avenue of the Allies

1918 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,064.00
115 Childe Hassam 1859--1935

Spring, Central Park

1916 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 839.00
116 Paul Landacre 1893--1963

Sultry Day

New York 1937 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,638.00
117 James Swann 1905--1985

Rainy Night (Chicago)

1951 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,008.00
118 Carl Hoeckner 1883--1972

The Death of Truth

1930s USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 393.00
119 Gene Kloss 1903--1996

San Francisco Bay

1930 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 945.00
120 Peter Milton b.1930

Water Music (from the Interiors V series)

1988 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 819.00
121 Dox Thrash 1893--1965

Hobo with a Satchel

c.1945 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
122 Hans Hofmann 1880--1966

Untitled (Woman's Head)

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 441.00
123 Charles Sheeler 1883--1965

Architectural Cadences

NY and Los Angeles 1954 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,772.00
124 Sybil Andrews 1898--1992

Flower Girls

1934 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,048.00
  • High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD